Cabernet Sauvignon, Peju Winery

blackberry • cocoa • firm tannins

Classic Napa Cabernet with blackberry, cassis, and dark cherry layered with cocoa, toasted oak, and a little clove spice. The texture is full and structured, with tannins that give the wine shape without feeling harsh. The wine spends about 19 months in French and American oak, roughly 40% new, which adds the cocoa and baking-spice notes while rounding the edges of the tannins and letting the dark fruit stay front and center.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the famous 1976 'Judgment of Paris', the blind tasting that occurred, less than a decade before Peju was founded, where Napa Valley Cabernets stunned the wine world by beating top Bordeaux. That moment helped establish Napa as one of the great Cabernet regions on the planet.

Fun Fact: The winning Napa Cabernet in the tasting was from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, a result that shocked the French judges and instantly changed global perceptions of California wine.